Chapter 146: Fighting to Break Out
Seeing that the wind on the sea began to increase a little, the face of the shopkeeper Xiao changed, and suddenly he roared: "Release the rocket!" Tell the captain of those boats! Even if I don't want to fight their boats, I will be injured by those ghost boats! Leave them behind! ”
Several rockets took off again, and the ships under Chu Cai's old men who had blocked the way of the three ships of the sea wolf on the sea immediately shrunk, narrowed the distance between each other, and blocked the way of the sea wolf.
Luo Xianbin pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife on his waist, and also stared at the boats rushing over on the opposite side, whether he and his brothers can escape today depends on this battle.
As long as he takes these three boats to tear through this line of defense, then the next thing is that the sea is wide and the fish can leap, and the sky is high and the birds will fly! With the speed of their ship, these guys would be wishful thinking if they wanted to leave them behind.
The mainsail and foresail gradually began to eat up the wind, making their ship faster and faster, and the bow of the boat, which had been a little sluggish, began to rise slightly, and the sharp bow of the ship cut through the water, and the waves set off quickly glided over the narrow and graceful hull, forming a snow-white wave trail in the stern.
The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, although there are still some ships under Chu Cai's old men around them rushing towards this side, but it is obvious that with their speed, they can't catch up with the boat that blocked the three sea wolves.
So now the only three boats that can stop the sea wolf are the various ships in front of them, and these boats under the old Chu Cai, the hearts of the leaders and minions on the ship are all in their throats.
Because they all really felt the speed of the three ghost boats in front of them, at this moment the wind on the sea just increased, these three ghost boats began to accelerate, and it was getting faster and faster, the speed has far exceeded their speed, once they can't stop these three ghost boats at once, let them rush over from the side, the gods have no way to take them anymore.
So they only have one chance, and that is to take them down, or take down one of their boats, the moment they rush over, or else they will be in vain this time.
The distance of two miles, which was close on the sea, was approached in the blink of an eye, and the men on both sides ceased to shout and curse, and began to become quiet, all ready to use their weapons, ready to greet the enemy ship.
Luo Xianbin forced himself to stabilize his mind, carefully observed the enemy ships on the opposite side, and finally locked his eyes on the two boats, these two boats were relatively far away from each other when they gathered just now, which gave Luo Xianbin and them a chance.
Luo Xianbin immediately shouted to the helmsman beside him: "Left rudder!" Plug in between those two boats! The guns on board are ready! Only one chance! Beat these two boats so hard that they don't come over!" ”
The helmsman nodded and said loudly, "Understood!" Left rudder! Grandma's, Lao Tzu is here! Ha Lu Ha! With that, the helmsman immediately pulled the wheel vigorously.
Now two of the three sloops have finally used the steering wheel mechanism to control the rudder, which is undoubtedly a huge improvement for the sailing ship, in the vast majority of cases, a helmsman can easily operate the rudder without the need for others to help him, and the most important thing is that the helmsman's line of sight has been improved a lot, and he can directly see the position of the bow and the situation in front of the ship.
In this way, the helmsman can steer more easily and intuitively, and can control the course of the ship more accurately, thus improving the flexibility of the boat.
As Luo Xianbin began to turn the rudder of the first ship, the two subsequent boats immediately followed it and began to turn the rudder, and the three boats maintained a linear array, connecting end to end like a fast knife, stabbing straight towards the gap between the two boats.
At this time, the distance between the two sides had been shortened to about 100 meters, and Chu Cailao's subordinates were ready to engage in battle, and they all made a posture to hit the three ghost ships.
But they didn't expect that at such a close distance, these three ghost ships actually maintained a high speed and could make such a flexible turn, so they were a little confused, and the helmsmen of those ships shouted and greeted the helmsmen, quickly turned the rudder, aimed at the three ghost ships, and tried to continue to pinch them.
But the sloop showed its advantage in agility at this time, and it could almost be said that under the noses of the fellows, it made a magnificent turn, and plunged straight into the position between the two ships they had chosen.
In fact, the distance between these two ships under Chu Cai's old men is not very large, at most about sixty or seventy meters, in terms of the sea, such a distance is nothing at all, but they met an opponent they are not familiar with today.
The ships of the three sea wolves turned to their gap when they were not expecting it, and almost in the blink of an eye, they broke between them.
There was a shouting and exclamation on the sea, and then a series of cannons rang out from the boats under the command of Chu Cailao.
In order to be able to stop these three ghost ships, the artillery on these ships has long been ready to fire cannons, and the minions who operate the cannons have long been carefully moving the heavy gun carriages, trying to find these three "ghost ships", preparing to give them a ruthless blow once they approach.
But they didn't expect that these three "ghost ships" were actually right under their noses, and they suddenly turned around, and immediately destroyed their aim just now, so that they had to quickly readjust the gun mount, and hurriedly saw that these three "ghost ships" were about to be inserted between them, so Chu Cailao's subordinates on these ships did not dare to delay any longer.
So under the command of their leader, the ships immediately fired cannonballs and fired shells at the three "ghost ships" that cut into them.
Originally, if they fought for firepower, the ships of the three sea wolves were not at a disadvantage, they could take the initiative to fire before the other party opened fire in advance, and hit them first.
But now Luo Xianbin and the others had to give up this approach, in order to save ammunition, they could only break into the enemy formation, and only use the firepower on their ships at the position closest to the enemy.
In the midst of a chaotic cannon fire, the ships of the three sea wolves still rushed into the enemy formation in the face of artillery fire, and stubbornly accepted the shelling.
However, this kind of shelling did not have much effect on them, because under the command of Luo Xianbin, the ships of the three sea wolves suddenly turned, disrupting the enemy's plans, forcing them to hastily adjust the direction of the guns, and had to hastily fire their guns.
Even within their effective range, the shells basically fell in the seawater, even if a few shells hit the ships of the sea wolves, but because of the thick materials of these ships, they did not cause them much trouble, at best, they broke a piece of their ship, and failed to damage the main structure of the three boats.
So these three boats were still inserted into their ship formation, and at this time, Luo Xianbin suddenly shouted: "Hit me!" ”
At this time, Luo Xianbin's boat was in the middle of the two Chu Cailao boats, and the two boats had already begun to turn at this time, trying to clamp the three "ghost boats" and prevent them from passing between them.
So at this time, there was only less than fifty meters between the two Chu Cailao's boats, and Luo Xianbin's boat passed between them, and the distance between the two sides was only about twenty meters.
This kind of distance is basically within reach at sea, and for the guns on the ship, it is basically a head-to-head shot.
Hearing only a few bangs, several fires erupted from both sides of Luo Xianbin's boat at the same time, and then a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose up.
This salvo, in addition to the guns in the cabin, even a few small Franco cannons on the deck were fired together.
At such a close distance, even the little Franc cannons can give full play to their power, and in the blink of an eye, and then look at the two old ships on both sides, a piece of debris of the ship's board instantly collapsed on the side of the ship, and then I saw the stump of a human body flying.
Whether it is a six-pounder gun or a twelve-pounder gun, whether it is a solid bullet or a grape bullet, at such a distance, they can give full play to their power, solid bullets mixed with grape bullets, in an instant, the two enemy ships of the ship on the side of the ship is full of holes, a small number of minions on the side of the ship, under this artillery bombardment, even if even if a few were killed.
The two boats, which were turning inward and trying to pinch the Seawolf boat, were kicked as if they had been kicked violently, and the hull of the ship shook violently, and then began to turn outward again.
This can be regarded as a person's instinct to avoid danger, and when the helmsman sees his ship suddenly hit so hard, he instinctively presses the rudder and wants to dodge.
The two helmsmen on the ship turned purple at this moment, turned to the helmsman and roared, "Who made you change the helm!" Turn back and crash into them! Clamp them! ……”
Only then did the helmsman react, and once again pulled back the rudder, trying to continue to strike inward, but at this time, Luo Xianbin's boat had already passed between them quickly.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, a few idle men and soldiers also picked up the flintlock pistols on the ship, raised their guns and opened fire on the enemy ships opposite, including the upper bucket on the mast, and at this time they also copied a flintlock pistol and aimed it at an enemy ship under their feet and set fire.
The helmsman of an old subordinate of Chu Cai, who was jumping to his feet and scolding the helmsman, suddenly shook his body, and when he looked down, he saw a bloody hole in his chest, and a stream of blood arrows rushed out of his chest.
He reached out and covered his chest, staggered and scolded, "Grandma's! Unlucky......" Before he could finish speaking, he fell on his back on the deck.
After the ship lost its master, the helmsman watched their captain die in front of his eyes, and was so shocked that one Buddha ascended to heaven and two Buddhas went out of his body, and he panicked even more at a loss, and unconsciously pulled the rudder again, but their hand did not keep up with his rudder at this time, and the ship turned sideways.
In a matter of moments, the second boat cut between the two boats, and in an instant another volley of cannons was fired.
(Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, brethren!) Let's spend more time with your family today! I'm going to spend time with my family, too! Hehe! Today is even better! I wish you all a happy family and all the best! )